David Biespiel

David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of a dozen books, most recently, Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026, he is a contributing writer at the New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, American Poetry Review, and Poetry. For his writing, he has received two Oregon Book Awards, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, as well as been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian citation. He is Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program and founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.